Gymnastics is a sport that has been around for over 2,000 years but has been competitvie just over 100 years. The sport evolved in ancient Greece. Physical fitness was an important factor in ancient Greece. Gymnastics eventually was apart pf the military training. In 393 AD, Emperor Theodosius stopped the Olympic Games. On account of medieval beliefs of Christianity during the Dark Ages, gymnastics as a sport could not grow in popularity. For many centuries, gymnastics remained nothing but a forgotten sport. Gymnastics was later reborn in the late 18th century and the early 19th century when twp pioneer instructors named Friedrich and Jahn designed an apparatus for boys and young men to exercise on, which was later called the parallel bars. This was the rebirth of gymnastics. Gymnastics has been apart of the olympic games since 1896. Woman began participating in the sport in the year of 1928 in Amsterdam games. What is Gymnastics? Gymnastics is now a very popular sport that involves high levels of coordination as well as synchronized manner. Gymnastics requires flexibility, physical and mental strength. The gymnast must have a sense of control, balance, endurance and physical grace. Gymnast first must be comfortable with the more simpler tricks before getting to the advance tricks. The simple tricksfor floor involves: roles, bridges, cart wheels, round-offs and hand stands. Once the simpler tricks are mastered than a gymnast may be eligle in learning the more complex tricks which includes: hand springs, tucks, twists, doubles and combos.
Gymnastics as a sport is unique because of the precision, training, discipline and hard work that are required of the participant. It is a very graceful sport.
Mind and Body Interactions The mind plays a major role in the result of the outcome of the trick. Most trainers emphasize to their students to not think about the trick and to "just do it". The reason being is because when a gymnast think too much on the details of performing the trick the mind and body conflict. The body most over power the fears and conciousness of the mind. The mind brings about fears just becuse of past experiences and common knowledge. Most of the time the mind of a gymnast is completely blank except for the awareness that they are about to complete a trick.
Possible thoughts of Rene Descartes
Rene Decartes major argument was the fact that the mind and body was seperate. He phrased it as two substances. This what is know as Cartesian dualism.Cartesian dualism. The theory that the mind is seperate from the brain and was more connected with conciousness and awareness on the the behalf of the mind. I believe that Decartes would favor the idea that in gymnastics the mind and body are totally different since he also identifies with the idea. The fact that the mind seves as a conciousnes and awareness of the body it causes conflict with performing certain tricks, therefore concluding that the mind and body can not possibly correlate with one another. Also in performing the tricks the body does not rely on the mind to make that decision. The body and mind are totally different and seperated. Gymnastics completely agrees with Decartes' Cartsian dualism. Experience and personal opinions I have participated in gymnastics for about two years. I am no professional gymnist, but instead used the techniques of gymnatics to expert my skills in cheerleading. Starting gymnastics at a late age, it was harder for me to get over the fear of allowing my body to control my mind. From experience I knew that flipping backwards has its consequences. Foward tricks I always was eager to learn and hesitated on all back tricks. To get over the fear, I first had to stop thinking and instead allow my body to take control. Everytime I thought about the details of the trick, I injured myself in some type of way. As a result I use to get frustrated and upset which was my drive. "Being angry" allowed me to master that trick that I was trying to perfect. I am now comfortable and willing to learn back tricks but I still think which is still is my drawback. At that point of my life my body and mind was totally different and did not correlate with one another. Every time I did not think and took my mind outside my body I was able to perfect my trick. Gymnastics taught me dicipline, respect for my body as well as body strength. It also taught me independence, since I only depended on myself and no one else.
History of Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport that has been around for over 2,000 years but has been competitvie just over 100 years. The sport evolved in ancient Greece. Physical fitness was an important factor in ancient Greece. Gymnastics eventually was apart pf the military training. In 393 AD, Emperor Theodosius stopped the Olympic Games. On account of medieval beliefs of Christianity during the Dark Ages, gymnastics as a sport could not grow in popularity. For many centuries, gymnastics remained nothing but a forgotten sport. Gymnastics was later reborn in the late 18th century and the early 19th century when twp pioneer instructors named Friedrich and Jahn designed an apparatus for boys and young men to exercise on, which was later called the parallel bars. This was the rebirth of gymnastics. Gymnastics has been apart of the olympic games since 1896. Woman began participating in the sport in the year of 1928 in Amsterdam games.
What is Gymnastics?
Gymnastics is now a very popular sport that involves high levels of coordination as well as synchronized manner. Gymnastics requires flexibility, physical and mental strength. The gymnast must have a sense of control, balance, endurance and physical grace. Gymnast first must be comfortable with the more simpler tricks before getting to the advance tricks. The simple tricksfor floor involves: roles, bridges, cart wheels, round-offs and hand stands.
Once the simpler tricks are mastered than a gymnast may be eligle in learning the more complex tricks which includes: hand springs, tucks, twists, doubles and combos.
Gymnastics as a sport is unique because of the precision, training, discipline and hard work that are required of the participant. It is a very graceful sport.
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Mind and Body Interactions
The mind plays a major role in the result of the outcome of the trick. Most trainers emphasize to their students to not think about the trick and to "just do it". The reason being is because when a gymnast think too much on the details of performing the trick the mind and body conflict. The body most over power the fears and conciousness of the mind. The mind brings about fears just becuse of past experiences and common knowledge. Most of the time the mind of a gymnast is completely blank except for the awareness that they are about to complete a trick.
Possible thoughts of Rene Descartes
Experience and personal opinions
I have participated in gymnastics for about two years. I am no professional gymnist, but instead used the techniques of gymnatics to expert my skills in cheerleading. Starting gymnastics at a late age, it was harder for me to get over the fear of allowing my body to control my mind. From experience I knew that flipping backwards has its consequences. Foward tricks I always was eager to learn and hesitated on all back tricks.
To get over the fear, I first had to stop thinking and instead allow my body to take control. Everytime I thought about the details of the trick, I injured myself in some type of way. As a result I use to get frustrated and upset which was my drive. "Being angry" allowed me to master that trick that I was trying to perfect. I am now comfortable and willing to learn back tricks but I still think which is still is my drawback.
At that point of my life my body and mind was totally different and did not correlate with one another. Every time I did not think and took my mind outside my body I was able to perfect my trick. Gymnastics taught me dicipline, respect for my body as well as body strength. It also taught me independence, since I only depended on myself and no one else.